Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . er directions,to British activity, which grew with the centuiy. But even inthose o|)prcssive years explorers were not entirely idle. Soon after 1815 Polar exploration was renewed with in-creased zeal. Captain Scoresby, it may be mentioned, in 1806reached, on the north of Spitzbergen, a latitude of 81^ 12 1818 two Government expeditions were despatched—oneimder Captain Buchan, with Lieutenant John Frank
Social England : a record of the progress of the people in religion, laws, learning, arts, industry, commerce, science, literature and manners, from the earliest times to the present day . er directions,to British activity, which grew with the centuiy. But even inthose o|)prcssive years explorers were not entirely idle. Soon after 1815 Polar exploration was renewed with in-creased zeal. Captain Scoresby, it may be mentioned, in 1806reached, on the north of Spitzbergen, a latitude of 81^ 12 1818 two Government expeditions were despatched—oneimder Captain Buchan, with Lieutenant John Franklin assecond in connnand, to Spitzbergen, and the other under CaptainJohn Ross, Avith Lieutenant Edward Parry as second, to Davis The Arctic Kegions. BRITISH EXPLORArmX, 1S15-1885. 893 Straits. The former was mifortimate, but the latter may besaid to have rediscovered liatiins IJay. In the following- yearParry succeeded in pushing through Lancaster Sound andBarrow Strait, passing the Parry Islands on his right toMelville Island, about half-way to Behring Strait. In asecond expedition (1821-3) Parry discovered Fury and HeclaStrait, separating Melville Peninsula from Cockburn Land;. THROUGH THE ICE, JUNE, ISIS.{Sir J. lioss, Toyrtje of Discovery iit habella and Alaayider, ISlli.) and in a third attempt (1824) entered Barrow Strait, andexplored the channel leading to the south, which he namedPrince Regents Inlet. At the same time that Parry tried topush his way from the east, Captain Boechey entered theArctic Sea by Behring Strait (182(5), and succeeded in reach-ing Point Barrow, L5(j ?]] \V. ^^ith these two expeditionsa third co-operated bj land under Captain .John this, however, Franklin had succeeded in laying downa considerable stretch of the coast of Arctic America. In1819-22, accompanied by Dr. Richardson and two and Hood, Franklin made his way by the Saskatchewanand tlic IJarrcn (Tniunds to the Coppermine river, wh
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